-State Convention – if we host it we need to get permission and find someone to co-run it with Natalie
-Community service presentation by Natalie coming up, we need a date
-Historians are working on the scrapbook, Naomi is doing artwork and Tatum and Nicole are doing the photo arrangement, etc.
-Publicity is meeting on Thursday
-We are hosting an Easter party with the shelter, we working on the date, possibly Friday, April 7th
-We need to get people to sign up for more competitions at State Convention, sports commissioners are in charge of organizing this
-Consuls and Magis are working on hotel reservations for State Convention
-Drew and Bo need to work on props and cheers for Convention
-Constitution is being finalized
-Next waffle sale will be after vacation, possibly March 8th or 9th
Author: Katie Miller
EdTech Specialist at the Menlo School.
Italy Hotels + Guides
Hi All,
Thought you might want to know who are Paideia guides are and what hotels we are staying in in Italy.
- Hotels
- Pompeii (walking distance to the site): Hotel del Sole http://hoteldelsolepompei.it/
- Rome in Trastevere (a favorite part of the city for me): Villa Riari http://www.villariari.it/
- Paideia Guides
Meredith Francisco has a B.A. in Classics from the University of Iowa, where she wrote her thesis on witchcraft as featured in Horace’s early works. She organized a Latin summer camp at the Pentecrest Museums located on the Iowa campus with the help of Paideia’s Aequora program, and discovered a love of teaching. She is an alumna of the 2015 Living Latin in Rome program.
Mitchell Towne is an alumnus of Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece (2015 and 2016). He received his B.A. in Classics from Williams College with special interest in the influence of Classics on Renaissance art, Greek philosophy, and military history. After the fellowship, his dream is to become a high school teacher. He also enjoys swimming, water polo, and chess.
Can’t wait! It won’t be long now!
Knight School Italy Trip Info
Paideia Trip Info: Menlo in Italy 2017
- Prescriptions. Remember to bring all prescriptions in their prescription bottles, and make sure you have enough for 12 days (just in case). PACK ALL PRESCRIPTION MEDS and other necessities in your CARRY-ON luggage.
- Bank and credit cards!
- Call your banks for each card and let them know that you’re traveling in Italy(Rome and the Bay of Naples) from Feb. 11-19.
- Write down all credit card/ATM card numbers, and the emergency numbersto call (from outside the U.S.) should you lose a card or have it stolen.
- Travel chargers. Important for your phone, your camera, your iPod, computer… whatever you bring. (Make sure they’re dual voltage.)
- Plug adaptors. Italian electrical outlets are shaped differently.
- Cell phones. Check with your carrier to make sure you have a phone that will workinternationally and an international plan that will work in Italy, and what the costsare.
- Frequent flier number: We’re flying on Delta which has lots of partner airlines.
- A small, secure purse for carrying your credit cards, ATM cards, and cash:something you can wear close to your body, and underneath a jacket or sweater.
- Journal. This is a Knight School trip so a journal is required, I think you will be gladyou have it for notes, sketches, thoughts. I love looking back at mine. We will check that you journal each day, though we will not read the content. I will send a picture and note to your parents each night so they know what we are doing.
- OUR CELL PHONE NUMBERS FOR THE TRIP (We will all get a card with Paideia phone numbers a little closer to the departure time):
Dobbie Vasquez: 650-888-2489
Tony Lapolla: 650-799-4994
Albert Vasquez: 650-799-4997 - SATURDAY MORNING, February 11: Meet at 6:30 AM, in front of the DELTA AIRLINES counter in TERMINAL 3 of SFO. Sorry for the hour.
- Don’t forget your PASSPORT!! and please bring me a copy of your passport photo page if you have not done so already.
- Money: I recommend that you get some Euros from your bank before you leave the states. There are ATM machines most places in Italy, but it is good to start with some money in your pocket.
- What to pack: I have never been to Italy in February, so this is my best guess.
General tips: Think wrinkle-free, pieces that you can wear for two days (mix/match) and that you can layer. It’s winter, and it can be chilly!!! (The temperature ranges from 40-57 degrees). Bring a jacket with a hood or an umbrella.
Baggage via Delta: You are allowed one checked bag and one carry-on (must fit in the overhead compartments and be light enough for you lift over your head), and one laptop bag/purse.
- Here are our flights to and from Italy. Anyone getting off in NYC on the way home must let me know. Please send an email to dvasquez@menloschool.org and I will send you the proper release form.
- Departing (leave February 11th, arrive February 12th):
- DL 2348, SFO 08:55 → ATL 16:35
- DL 064, ATL 18:22 → FCO 09:45
- Returning (February 19th):
- DL 445, FCO 12:30 → JFK 16:30
- DL 490, JFK 19:25 → SFO 23:13
- Departing (leave February 11th, arrive February 12th):
JCL Minutes 1/24/17
-Natalie gave presentation and made some changes
-Ellie and Magis working on hotel reservations for state convention
-Drew finished the draft of the constitution, officers read it before the meeting and gave edits
-We decided that in the future, we will only have two historians instead of three and we will have a parliamentarian
JCL Minutes 1/17/17
-Yearbook pictures at 12:25
-Waffle sale tomorrow, we need people to sell during F block and clean up during lunch
-Mardi Gras party at the homeless shelter, we need to get props
-Bo, Sunia and Magis will pick activities to do during the party
-Community service presentation almost done
-We have booked hotel rooms for convention
-Akshay and Ellie have a state meeting this Saturday
-Historians are working with Akshay to start the scrapbook
-Bo and Drew need to organize props for convention for the spirit competition
-Drew finished the secondary round of edits for the constitution, next meeting we will run through it
-All officers need to read the constitution before next meeting
JCL Minutes 1/10/16
-We wrote a thank-you notes to facilities for their help at the Christmas party and to Jannell Walker for the bears
-Christmas party was a success!
-We had enough food, and people especially enjoyed the painting ornaments
-Next time we won’t let the camera leave so early and make sure that everyone who signed up stay for the whole party
-State convention is coming up, we decided we will stay in San Francisco Friday night, so the consuls will book the hotel
-Bo and Drew are organizing props for cheers
-We need to decide how to get people doing different contests
-We also need to work on getting certamen going better
-Waffle sale next Wednesday, January 18th
-Next week during break we are taking our yearbook photo at 12:20
-Mardi Gras party at the shelter possibly on February 28th or sometime that week
-Tatum, Nicole and Naomi are starting to work on the scrapbook
-Next Lorica after carcer
-Ellie and Natalie in charge of the banner
-We need people to volunteer to do the chariot and catapult
-Drew will keep working on constitution possibly with a bylaw about being on time to meetings
-Greece trip is still open
Magis’s End of the Year Statement
With exams finally over, Menlo JCLers turned their attention to our annual Christmas party at the Redwood Family House. With the money we made from our last waffle sale and our daily popcorn sales, we were able to provide fresh-cut trees, stands, and ornaments for every family in the shelter. Thanks to our Facilities Department, the trees were delivered on December 16 and set up in each apartment as well as the office. At 5 pm that night, we loaded our cars with our ornament-making supplies, a box with 50 ornaments per tree, tablecloths, plates, cups, drinks and snacks, and converged at the shelter by 5:30 to set up for the 6:00 pm party.
The families started arriving just before 6 pm. We took pictures of the children and placed them in picture frames which the children and their parents made, swirled paint around the inside of clear ornaments, decorated other ornaments with glitter or paint or both, and made other tree decorations by stringing bells, beads, and wooden cutouts on yarn. Everyone participated. Husbands made ornaments for the wives, and wives for their husbands. Children made presents of ornaments for their parents and each other. Everyone seemed to have a great time getting creative for Christmas.
Thanks to a wonderful donation from Jannell Walker in Facilities, we also had armloads of stuffed animals from Build-a-Bear for all the children. The little ones loved them to snuggle with and the older kids kept them as stuffed animals for their rooms or as gifts for their best friends. They were the hit of the evening!
Then around 7:15 pm dinner from Buca di Beppo arrived. We had spaghetti with meat sauce, penne a la vodka, Caesar salad, and bread and butter. With the forty people in the room, there was not much left. The salad is always the first to go because those ingredients are expensive and therefor a luxury for the families.
After that there were cookies for dessert, provided by Carla ’17, and everyone turned to cleaning up. Menlo students, the parents from the shelter, and the older kids there all chipped in to make the room ready for the next day. Even that part was fun.
Many thanks to all the Menlo kids who hung around after their last exam to help: Cam ’20, Cameron ’17, Carla ’17, Ellie P. ’18, Ellie Y. ’17, Jasckson ’18, Katelyn ’18, Nalatie ’19, Naomi ’19, Rachel ’18, Sunia ’17, Tatum ’17, Will ’18. We made a difference.
JCL Minutes 12/6/16
-We bagged candy for Saturnalia that we will get on the day of our final
-We also texted people to remind them what to bring for the waffle sale tomorrow
JCL Minutes 11/29/16
-Waffle sale next Wednesday (12/7/16)
-Carla will write an email to Ms. Crowder checking availability for waffle sale
-Saturnalia is next week
-We need to pick what crafts we will do at the xmas party
-Website deadline tomorrow – Will and Akshay need to enter
-Sunia and Natalie need to work on the video
JCL Minutes 11/22/16
Recorded by Carla
- need someone to take notes
- video for assembly
- Christmas party
- Trees after last final?
- food – Bucca?
- activities – ornaments, candy cane mice, paper chains
- stations
- ornaments
- Cameron will ask Nina about paint that
- ornaments
- polaroids for family photos
- baking festive food
- stations
- saturnalia – december 17th
- do things for all freshman
- little bag for all incoming freshman (once they get accepted) on why the should take Latin
- constitution edits
- voting rights?
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